At a time when many American artists remained tied to Europe, Demuth "Americanized" European modernism. This collection of 155 of his letters offers valuable views of the arts and letters colonies in Provincetown, New York, and Paris.

Born frail but rich in 1883, Charles Demuth was free to follow his aesthetic inclinations, partly shaped by Beardsley and Wilde, without having to please the market to make a living. Attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he lived in the same boarding house with William Carlos Williams, a...

Student art on exhibit at Demuth Museum
Keith Kaufman |
December 2, 2013
The Art-in-a-Box Exhibit now underway at the Demuth Museum in Lancaster is providing a great opportunity for everyone to enjoy and appreciate the incredible art skills of students from across Lancaster County and beyond, including Solanco students Jani Hileman, Theresa Gartland, Samantha Barker, Alexis Garnica, Seon Jin Kim, Ciana Malchione and Diana Serrano.
Solanco High School art teacher Candace Rakers said Theresa Gartland (below left) and Jani Hileman’s (below right) self-portraits in pastel have drawn especially high praise from the executive director of the Demuth Museum and others.

Charles Demuth 1883-1935, Buildings, Lancaster, 1930. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Er, sorry -- slightly misleading. The Precisionists were a group of artists, not architects, though their work depicted industrial architecture -- then cutting-edge in the 1920s -- through an abstract lens. The current survey of Edward Hopper paintings at The Whitney Museum in New York includes one room dedicated to the Precionists, a group Hopper more or less aligned with for several years before the Great Depression. The Industrial Revolution had long since passed but those same manufacturing innovations were being put to use in the new steel skyscrapers of America's urban capitals. Charles Demuth, probably the best known Precisionist, cente...

One of the most unique paintings featured on the Modern Art in America stamp sheet is I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, by Charles Demuth. The work is actually a "poster portrait" of Demuth's friend William Carlos Williams, who is honored on the 2012 Twentieth-Century Poets stamp sheet. Williams had written a poem, “The…